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Hildegard features in new recording

Echoes of St Hildegard

A recording of the sacred voices of women features selections from the Convent of Las Huelgas Manuscript and from Hildegard of Bingen.

Episcopal News Service  |  18 Sep 2008

"Echoes of St. Hildegard" from Church Publishing, Inc., by The Lady Chapel Singers, with Lisa Neufeld Thomas, Artistic Director, CD, $18

A recording of the sacred voices of women collected through the Women's Sacred Music Project, Inc. in Philadelphia. It features selections from the Convent of Las Huelgas Manuscript and from Hildegard of Bingen.

Contemporary female composers and arrangers are represented as well. The recording is topped off by a
performance of Esther, Premiere Cantate by Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre.

The Lady Chapel Singers is the performing group associated with the Women's Sacred Music Project, Inc. They have performed throughout the United States and Europe under the direction of Lisa Thomas.

Track List:
1. *Verbum Bonum, Convent of Las Huelgas Ms.
2. *Phos Hilaron, Sr. Elise, CHS<p>
3. Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho, arr. Marylou India Jackson
4. *O Holy Spirit, Root of Life, Sharon Hershey
5. *Media Sida, from Liturgy of South Ghana
6. Ave Maria, Deborah Lutz
7. Kyrie, Hildegard of Bingen
8. *Laus Trinitati, Hildegard of Bingen
9. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, African American Spiritual
10. O Nata Lux, Deborah Lutz
11. Casitatis thalamum, Convent of Las Huelgas Ms.
12. The Angel Gabriel, trad. Basque carol
13. *Mary, When the Angel's Voice, Piae Cantiones
14. Esther, Premiere Cantate, Elizabeth-Cloude Jacquet de la Guerre
15. *Nunc dimittis, Sr. Elise, CHS

* These selections are contained in the hymnal, Voices Found: Women in
the Church's Song, also published by Church Publishing.

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